[R] Proposal: Package update log

2012-10-02 Thread Starkweather, Jonathan
I'm relatively new to R and would first like to sincerely thank all those who contribute to its development. Thank you. I would humbly like to propose a rule which creates a standard (i.e., strongly encouraged, mandatory, etc.) for authors to include a `change log' documenting specific

Re: [R] Proposal: Package update log

2012-10-02 Thread Starkweather, Jonathan
Thanks to all for the responses and suggestions. I was primarily proposing a more detailed change log for packages on CRAN. To my mind, repositories like R-forge host packages more 'raw' than those on CRAN (i.e. CRAN seems to me to contain more 'finished' packages which occasionally are